Sannyas Anyone?

topic posted Wed, May 23, 2007 - 10:41 AM by  Lesley
I have never met Osho in the flesh but have certainly met him in spirit and in my dreams...many times. I visited the ashram in Pune, India but didn't feel ready to take sannyas. Now after years of self exploration, study, and self discovery, I feel ready. Is it possible to still take sannyas? Does one have to be in Pune at the ashram? How does one go about doing this?

Anyone?

Lesley
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Lesley
California
  • Re: Sannyas Anyone?

    Thu, May 24, 2007 - 5:52 AM
    Hi Lesley...
    Yes, of course you can take sannyas anytime. Just do a search on the internet for "Sannyas application" You fill it out send it in, it goes to Pune, and they answer you quickly with your sannyas letter and new name. Even when the dear old boy was around, many sannyasins took sannyas by mail, it is just a bit easier, and shorter time now. I took sannyas by mail....

    Namaste, Krishna Naseem
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    Fri, June 1, 2007 - 10:41 AM
    ...initially I waited 3 years to come in 'terms' with the master..then though I know I can take sannyas by mail, I waited to go to Puna. Coz I liked the celebration. Very first time when I was in Puna I saw the sannyas celebration in Buddha hall...flowers, music, dance, hugs, kisses, cries...aaaaaaah.....what not!! So I waited another year and finally in 2006 I made it Puna. By that time Buddha hall was demolished. In the new Pyramid there are no flowers because they banned flowers there. But music, dance and all celebration was there...and I got my name 'prem sharabo'. I was enjoying all the 'drama' , but when they called my name I broke into tears until somebody came and hug me up with my name on the paper.....ha ha ha....oh wow...its all upto you...u want some 'drama' alongwith your name or u simply want to take it quite...in any case 'Welcome'...
    • Re: Sannyas Anyone?

      Fri, June 1, 2007 - 3:34 PM
      Well it took me 3 months to mail for sannyas. But the thing is dead now so who do you ask?
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        Fri, June 1, 2007 - 6:31 PM
        Prayoga....for you it is dead...speak for yourself....for others it is juicily alive!

        love Satrup
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          Sat, June 2, 2007 - 12:57 AM
          Satrup, yes and no, for some people it is alive, for others it feels dead. I tend to lean towards Pragoya, especially after all that has happened after Osho left the body. If you want to know more simply check out Amrito, Jayesh and few others who told the rest of the sannyasins about an inner circle. I have never heard Osho speak about any inner circle, and there have been funny games going on. Such as the fact that Osho's paintings and his ashes are not even in Poona, as far as I know the stuff has been held in Switzerland for some time, and then got transferred to the new headquarter of some businessmen in New York, who have taken Osho's texts and taken them out of context with heavy editing. Did you know that you can hardly buy original books of Osho anymore. You have to look really hard to find some. All his speaking has been falsified, new books with Bullshit titles like "Osho, a spiritually incorrect Mystic" have appeared, with interpretations of what Osho was, and the funny thing, they are creating a new religion . When Osho was asked about that I have heard him say that there will be undoubtedly a religion after his death, I am not surprised. So yes, I don't go to see a video of an Osho lecture anymore, unless it is an old original one. You can find out more about this stuff here:

          www.oshofriendsinternational.com/o...sp

          Yes, something of his always remains in the video's they cannot fully erase that, they sure try though.

          For anyone who would like to have a real "whiff of what it was like in the days when the master was in the body I very much recommend Veena's book. She seems to manage to bring these days back to us like they are here and now. The title is: A Seam For The Master and you can find it here:

          www.treetongue.co.uk/seam.html

          I still cherish this book very much. Truly Jewls...

          Upavas
        • Re: Sannyas Anyone?

          Sat, June 2, 2007 - 9:05 AM
          Satrup.

          Who is there to speak for? Self, what is it?

          But you are right, the ting is not dead, the thing is not alive. In fact it never excisted. Juicily it can never be anymore, it's not there. We might have memories from juicy times. It is gone, not dead, but gone.

          Sannyas Anyone? Who would you follow, who is there to have a living relation with? In fact it wasn't there in the old days. It was fake. We followed a no-one. So to say, one can do that now also! There is nothing there.

          The thing said no-thing, so there is no-thing to do or any rule to follow. Mail for a mala, collect it and wear it under your cloths if some fool sais so. The thing won't mind, it is gone!

          He lives on Google!!! On Yahoo they say, no he is dead say others, it was never there!!!

          The thing, Osho, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, is gone, it was nice but now he's gone...

          An other suitcase in an other hall,
          Take your picture from an other wall,
          Where are we going to? Don't ask any more...
          (Evita...:-)
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        Wed, June 27, 2007 - 5:28 PM
        I hate to say it but it is true Pryoya, the sanyas thing is almost dead.You dont get the real meaning , the real flavor of taking sanyas when you take it thru the mail.Taking sanyas thru mail , it remains a head affair, it never reaches the heart, it does not become a love affair.

        Sanyas is not about just getting a new name on a piece of paper and a mala with master's picture mailed to you, its about a life change, a commitment with not only with the master but with the whole existence.

        Now anyone can take a sanyas thru mail because it has turned into a business like thing, into a ritual. But again taking sanyas thru mail does not harm either because there is nothing to lose.It cant get any worse then what it is now, but there are chances, at least .001% that a person taking sanyas thru the mail may one day grow to the ultimate flowering and spread its fragnance into the whole existence .

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          Wed, June 27, 2007 - 8:26 PM
          As someone who got his mala in the mail a little over 26 years ago... Feb. 22, 1981.

          I'd have to conclude it's mostly just the gibberish in your head doing the talking.
          Since you can offer no evidence to support your dismissive statements.
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            Wed, June 27, 2007 - 9:55 PM
            I get a Samasati email from Osho everyday...
            today it says:

            "The Secret

            garimo,

            There is only one secret which is not part of the mind, and that is witnessing, watching. Thoughts are passing, desires are moving, memories are coming and going like clouds in the sky and you are sitting silently simply watching, not doing anything. If you do anything immediately the mind starts functioning. What you do does not matter - doing is part of mind. A non-doing witnessing, just witnessing, as if a mirror goes on witnessing whatsoever passes by - that is awareness. And that awareness takes you beyond the mind. It is true meditation.
            Osho"
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            Sun, July 1, 2007 - 11:25 AM
            Just because someone gets his mala 26 years ago does not mean anything.Sanyas is not about quantity , its not about time but about quality ,about much awareness one has achived.But I can understand you have vested 26 years of your life and naturally you want to defend your investment. And someone like me who is "nobody" says something against sanyas over the mail , it hurts the ego.

            I am suprised 26 years of sanyas and you are talking like a non-sanyasin, looking for evidence and support. If you feel you have done the right thing then why even bother for any kind evidence from me, you should be just happy.

            You may be right, It may be just gibberish in my head but you have spent 26 years of your life just to judge my statements thru your mind instead transcending the mind.
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              Sun, July 1, 2007 - 2:02 PM
              Oh thats nice, one can gather awareness??
              So as in: do you best and achieve awareness...:-))) hahahahahahaaaaaa
              Meditate and achieve awareness;
              Order a mala and get awareness;
              Donate a Rolls Royce and get enlightened by mail.... hahahaaaa

              It was a joke and we played in it,
              and... one stil can, and may...

              It was a good joke then...it stil is!
              Go on, play it!

              With his blessings
              Prayoga
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              Sun, July 1, 2007 - 3:59 PM
              I understand how easy for it is to not understand what people mean.

              But regardless of someone getting their sannyas in the mail, or if it was personally presented gift wrapped on a gold platter... *YOU* can't possible know what anyone else's experience has been or will be.
              And to present mathematical predictions about other peoples expeiances comes off as silly as thinking you know what a sannyasins does or does not sound like.

              When you start speaking of yourself and from your personal experience... That, I'll be able to hear.
              As you speak about what others may experience... I'll continue to think it's gibberish.

              Gibberish like thinking you can see motives from me factual stating what date I received a mala in the mail. Your mind. Your gibberish.
              I'm not suprised or in denial at all by my mind, or yours.
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              Sun, July 1, 2007 - 4:11 PM
              >>>>but there are chances, at least .001% that a person taking sanyas thru the mail may one day grow to the ultimate flowering and spread its fragnance into the whole existence .

              Can you say the percentages are better for someone who gets their Mala pressed to their third eye in person while the music plays.

              Is it .004%??
              More? less?

              How can any honest person make such a knowing statement?
              So yes it's still true for me that Extraordinary Claims require Extraordinary Evidence.
              Especially in online chat.
  • Re: Sannyas Anyone?

    Sat, June 2, 2007 - 4:51 PM
    Dear Lesley,

    If your heart is stirred and you feel Osho's presence, you might want to check out The Bodhi Center www.thebodhicenter.net , and/or visit for satsang or darshan. The founder of the Bodhi Center is Bodhisattva Swami Premodaya. Osho, his spiritual Master, renamed him Swami Premodaya many years ago. There is an empty chair where he sits also. I love Osho too, and found Premodaya because of searching for Osho and Gangaji on the net. You know that which is never born, never died, is not gone. I feel Osho's eternal blessing, and I was moved reading your message.

    Sincerely,

    Barbara
    • Re: Sannyas Anyone?

      Mon, June 4, 2007 - 9:14 AM
      Thank you so much Barbara for your kind words and helpfulness! I am moved by Osho's words which are still alive for me and many others.

      Namaste,

      Lesley
      • Re: Sannyas Anyone?

        Mon, June 4, 2007 - 5:31 PM
        Lesley......The Master is alive for many. Come dance for our drumming group on Thurs. We are L.A. sannyasins!

        We would love your dancing, and you would meet people with love alive for Osho.

        Namaste.....Krishna...........email me for details!
  • Re: Sannyas Anyone?

    Tue, June 26, 2007 - 2:14 PM
    Lesley......Osho International Foundation has created a new website...

    www.neosannyas.org
    You will find wonderful teachings from Osho on sannyas, and be able to look thru sannyasin names of the past.

    Enjoy....Luvs, Krishna
    • Unsu...
       

      Re: Sannyas Anyone?

      Fri, June 29, 2007 - 3:20 AM
      I don't get the want for a new name.

      The more i learn about Osho, or at least the more i read, the more i read on here too - it seems there is alot of attachment to the old boy!

      I love his words and his message - but I'd have no desire to have a new name. I just want to be.
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        Fri, June 29, 2007 - 9:46 AM
        Sounds like you're not just being.

        I get the impression you're comparing your judgments of yourself
        with your judgments of other people.

        Who's better off?

        When someone's life has been immersed and saturated in something for more than half their lifetime, are they "attached" or just being?

        How could you tell?
  • Hello,
    as a representative of Osho Meditation place in Bosnia & Herzegovina we got new instrunction for people who want to take sannyas.

    ..." The message below is now being sent from this new email
    address, info@neosannyas.org to everyone who writes wanting to take sannyas,
    referring them to the new website, www.neosannyas.org.

    As the process of taking sannyas is now independent of anybody other than
    the individual concerned, we ask the centers to please respect this and
    except for helping with translations until we have the different languages
    up on the website - please just direct people to this new website and allow
    them to "take" their own sannyas...."
    • So now you are telling people they HAVE to live with awareness? I have never heard Osho state this as condition. A suggestion, all the time, but not as a condition. Conditions were that you wear Orange, and that you wear the mala. After Oregon that condition was off the table as well, since then we wear the colors of the rainbow . I am not a fan of OIF, they are the people who keep taking the masters words out of context and do not allow us to use Osho's name on anything anymore (or at least try to). Also called Amrito, Jayesh and the gang... so now they change how you take sannyas too? What else is on the menue? More falsification of Osho's words? Or completely getting rid of Osho's pictures in Poona? Maybe another book with a title more stupid than "Osho, A Spiritually Incorrect Mystic" ? Although it seems really very hard to get more stupid than that... You know, the sannyas ceremony meant a lot to the people who took sannyas, even if it wasn't in Poona and directly from the master, something always transpired... I do not know how it is for people now that the master is no more in the body, in 1992 in Poona on sannyas ceremony their faces still looked very blissed out, they had tears in their eyes and smiles of utter bliss and ecstasy. Are you taking that away too?
      One more question!


      Who made this decision and on what authority?


      Namaste.

      Upavas
      • I once wrote to Osho and asked why were his Sannyasins always argueing with each other...
        He replied:
        "The only thing Sannyasins have in common is the color red, love for him, and the INTENTION to meditate."
        He never seemed to expect much and I don't recall him demanding anything.
        I don't get where many "absolute" anythings can come from the things Osho has said.
        Seems some people are taking their priesthood and editing a bit far.
      • Beloved Upavas....Where does it say you have to live in awareness??? What are you referring to? I think it more a suggestion.

        Trademarks and copyrights are very difficult to deal with. You must be constantly on top of everything that is going on in the world pertaining to your copyrights. I have done this, for many years, incurred many hundreds of thousands of dollars protecting what is mine,and it is no easy task, have you had to maintain a universal copyright and run interference on a universal scale.? It is very easy to criticize one thing, or a few that you do not like...it is far more difficult to see the entire picture. It is far bigger than we can imagine...None of us, but maybe a few, have had to protect such a legacy, and have had to defend that legacy thru litigation etc.

        I just wouldn't be so quick to judge. Do you really know everything that goes on behind the scenes in Pune...or the why's...The OIF has their reasons for doing the things they do, I'm sure. We will never know, but I for one, will not judge what they have do. It's really just chatter without having the facts of the matter. You might think you know what is going on on the surface, but the why's maybe haven't been explained. I'm sure that the "resort" is not a small cost to maintain. They need bodies....they need to market it to people without the Master there...they have to make it appealing to people, if they want to financially survive...maybe they had to take Osho's pics down for that reason...make it more generic..I don't know, but I also am in no position to question their motives without being involved with the inner core of their workings. They are responsible for controlling people all over the world using Osho's name, saying crazy things...doing crazy things etc. all in Osho's name??? It is a daunting task...

        The OIF watches over 220 publishers in 80 different countries. You might try this for 1 year and see what you come up with. Guaranteed you would loose you hair!

        I had a license for products to 10 countries and this was so over whelming, I went mad, so I have a great deal of respect for OIF and what they have accomplished to maintain. I guess i am looking at it from a licenceing perspective, but it is all so huge. I am in no way agreeing to changing Osho's words, that is wrong, I prefer to buy older books online, and listen to original discourses, with that I agree.....But I do not know enough to judge!

        Who are we or anybody else to tell them to not take sannyas off of a website? Let that persons free will do what is best for them. It is a very personal and very intimate thing to take sannyas with or without the Master. Many have taken sannyas by mail and celebrated in their own way.

        Just open yourself to look at it from another view point......Luvs...Krishna


        • Hi Krishna, I am just quoting on what is said on the website
          [quote]
          "but with an absolute condition, categorical condition: and that condition is awareness, meditation” – as Osho describes sannyas "
          [quote]

          I never knew awareness to be a condition. And I never heard OSHO describe sannyas like that. NEVER EVER! and I am very careful when I use the word never! I am not speaking against awareness. I am referring to it being made a condition.
          The "resort" as you are referring to it has always been ok with money. I have lived there long enough to know.
          I do not doubt that maintaining publishing rights is a difficult thing to do, especially not in 220 countries or more. It is how they are going about the whole thing.
          Facts are:
          Osho's ashes are not in his Samadhi.
          His words are being tampered with although he gave very precise instructions to never whatsoever do anything like that.
          I know that Buddha Hall meant a lot to many people who were there who did not want to see it destroyed.

          As to taking sannyas from a website. I think it is great. Just the whole anonimity business seems to be another idea of Swami Deva Coconut!
          I have never heard OSHO refuse sannyas to anyone, and I think he would have loved the internet idea. However, the other option should also be there. Why only that way and not the old way as well?

          Many centers, including the one in India where Ma Yoga Neelam did go through all kinds of trouble and expenditure including numerous courtcases that are going on in NYC at this very momento be able to use the name OSHO. Neelam was Osho's ambassador in Poona when he was still alive and had Osho's trust! The fact that many old sannyasins are kicked out of the Ashram does not help either...

          Also Dheeraj who had precise instructions from Osho himself, as to the deelopment of his bodywork and to the pyramids which were built for excactly that work (Osho Tibetan Pulsing Healing) and who built up energy in the pyramids was told by Jayesh and co. to make it into a nightclub, there was very deep bodywork going that I experienced myself in the days... and that energy fied was pretty much reduced to a nightclub. And these were not OSHO's instructions. It got so too much that Dheeraj, who was a member of the so called "Inner Circle" had to leave Poona, and with him most others as well. He was not allowed to use the name OSHO, as he was forbidden by Jayesh, Amrito and co. although his instructions that he followed came from OSHO himself.

          There is always the thing with the Hollywood gang, hardly anyone seems to know what happened there.

          The there are the circumstances of Viveks death, no celebration and everything. I have heard that she was murdered in Lao Tzu garden.
          All the Lao Tzu guards were told to leave that day. I know because I myself was a rounder-guard at that time.

          Protecting such a large legacy is one thing, falsifying it , taking it out of context, removing everything that sannyasins lovingly created, like all of Osho's pictures that do not seem to be availlable anymore, his paintings and all the other stuff that pretty much belonged to all of us is simply bullshit.

          I am not judging them, I am simply stating what they are doing, because I am aware of it. And with me there are many others who seem to feel the same way, as a matter of fact thousands!
          And as far as appealing to public is concerned, OSHO made himself most unappealing to the public wherever he went, he spoke the truth about them wherever he went, which is what ultimately got him kicked out of the USA, poisoned and denied entry to 21 countries...

          I have always loved him for doing excactly that.

          The whole idea of making something appealing to the public is to sell it. BUSINESS. And that was never the idea. As a matter of fact, all these money things always had a knack for working out beautifully, especially with trust. Why now a business?
          And who gets the money? And why?


          Love Upavas






    • Re: Sannyas Anyone? - No official sannyas anymore

      Sat, March 15, 2008 - 12:38 PM
      I became a mail-order sannyasin in 2000 at the age of 24. For me sannyas has been a tremendious liberating affair.

      As I understand Osho, he does not intend us to be followers of him, not even disciples. From what I can understand, he gave us sannyas so that we have a "formal" excuse to be informal, living life to the full. For me, being a sannyasin means being an authentic and sincere human being. That sannyas is freed even from him - as a formality - I find as a true expression of what sannyas is all about.

      Sannyas is an excuse to live one's own life, one's mystery as one sees fit.

      Love from Visarganath